EDUCATION Minister Jeff Lloyd.
By RIEL MAJOR
Tribune Staff Reporter
rmajor@tribunemedia.net
AN investigation has been launched to probe the circumstances surrounding a video in which an older woman is seen hitting a young girl with frying pans, according to Minister of Education Jeffrey Lloyd.
When contacted, Mr Lloyd said the child in the video was abused and the matter needs to be investigated.
Mr Lloyd told The Tribune: “I have invited the Minister of National Security as a concerned citizen and as a member of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to investigate who the person in the video is, interrogate the person and have this person evaluated (to see what). . .inflicted this individual to believe that was an appropriate response to whatever that child may or may not have done for this child to be the victim of, and I call her ‘victim’ purposely, licked by way of a frying pan and not just one but several of them.”
He continued: “Several of those blows would have been inflicted with some energy. To an extent that it very easily could have caused her shoulder and other parts of the body injury, if not serious injury to this defenceless child who is in a position of great vulnerability.”
Mr Lloyd said if adults can’t evolve their thinking, society can’t expect children to understand appropriate responses to disputes.
“I don’t care what society may consider to be punishment or discipline, I consider it to be abuse. What you are essentially teaching by this adult behaviour is violence. That’s all you’re teaching, violence,” he said.
“You’re angry, upset, annoyed and offended or surprised that we have such a high level of violence among our young people in this society.”
In the minute-long video, which was widely shared on social media, a young girl in school uniform is seen balled up in a corner being beaten by an older woman using frying pans. The woman is heard saying in between dishing out blows, “You want (make) booty shake movie? That’s what you gone to school for? That’s what you putting those clothes underneath your uniform for, to go in bathroom? What else you is do in that bathroom? That’s what I paying private school fee for?”
The girl is also heard screaming and pleading for the beating to stop, while shielding her face with her arms.
Comments
sheeprunner12 5 years ago
A prominent Jamaican sociologist has concluded from his research that Caribbean boys (Bahamians included) do not take physical revenge on mothers who have "tortured" them during their childhood, as they would probably do to their fathers ......... However, they will transfer their emotional (and physical) revenge to the women in their lives when they become adults.
Many "single mothers" do more harm to their children (unintentionally) than the absentee fathers ever will ..... Two wrongs do not make it right.
jamaicaproud 5 years ago
I could be wrong but I strongly suspect who this sociologist is. Every few months the Newspapers give him space for some new utterance. That being said. The issue of beating is cultural, There is a culture of control at every level.
Haven't seen this video, but knowing the mindset, last year a women in Jamaica was seen beating her daughter with a machete. The courts recognized she needed socialization as opposed to incarceration. Many of these people are raised as beasts and brutes and simply don't know better.
sheeprunner12 5 years ago
Professor Herbert Gayle ........ great research on Yardie gangs as well. We should really adopt some of his crime and violence findings here in The Bahamas.
jamaicaproud 5 years ago
LOL. You know the man. He states the obvious as research and clouds it in .... Well Most people don't take him serious.
sheeprunner12 5 years ago
Yet, we pay millions of dollars for white people (consultants/experts) to come to our WI countries and tell us their fake news and we take it as Gospel ........ We hate ourselves too much, and believe that "others" must fix our problems.
Chucky 5 years ago
Sadly there are no good examples of well run anything by black people.
So you are such a racist, and have to identify that we bring “white people” rather than the obvious, we bring people who have had experience with and success in certain areas to weigh in on our problem areas. As best, they happen to be white!
You are the example of why most things black don’t work! You’re a disgrace to our people !
You could simply try to offer up examples of where our people could help, what you gotta bring colour up for. Let the low life’s who can’t think be that way.
geostorm 5 years ago
@sheeprunner, you may just be right.
My2centz 5 years ago
All over social media there's mostly a chorus of mentally abused adults chiming in and bragging about the beatings they received as children but still "turned out fine". Or anecdotes of how that one "cut @ss" or series of them from their loving parents changed their life for the better.
Parents like this dont realize they were abused, or that they are repeating the cycle. They will probably never accept this label, or change their approach. The only recourse is to ensure that there are laws in place, and enforced, to protect minors in order to break this vicious cycle. I fully support prosecuting this woman, and I hope they tap on some additional charges for exposing her child in this way.
jamaicaproud 5 years ago
I fully agree with you. I always ask my Jamaican brethren and sistren.
If beating were so good about keeping us in line, why is our society to raggedy and disorganized and violent?
The love to claim Jamaican children are so "mannersable" intimidated by beatings, but how does it translate to peace and tranquility.
Most upper middle class and wealthy people do not go the violence route, their children turn out fine
Well_mudda_take_sic 5 years ago
This incompetent imbecile Lloyd, a Minnis appointee, should be totally focused on the many critical education issues facing our country today. But instead he chooses to let himself be distracted by a social media video in order to make political hay with minds that are even weaker than his own. LMAO
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